>wow, these are very cool! Thanks for this.
> I also like them very much.
I'm glad you like them :)
>I think we even don't have to decide which one to take but can offer several different version
This was my thinking too - if we have a selection then people can choose which they prefer.
However I understand that having one particularly clear button is a good idea for consistency and branding.
I was wondering about using imagemagik or similar to generate a button with the member's number (or name, but that's probably harder) for new fellows. I've never done this before, and you may not think a button with a fellow number is relevant, but its just an idea.
>for some reason the button is blue on my screen
Yes, the last button in the gallery is blue, all the others are green. This is intentional, as the fellowship branding/theming is green based, but the fsfe logo is blue based, so the designs are fundamentally different. I didn't see that it made sense to brand generic fsfe buttons with the fellowship theme as they are two separate things. Personally I find the fellowship theming preferable and much easier to work with but the fsfe needs more exposure than the fellowship programme, in my opinion, as the fellowship is just one source of funding and activity for fsfe.
>What is important for the web is, that we provide several different sizes of the buttons
Well, once you decide on one that you like then I can make them whatever size you like (although we will be limited in how small we can go by having to maintain readability).
I can make some more or add some alterations if people have specific requests.
I'm not sure where we are expecting these buttons to be used primarily - on people's blogs? On stickers? Again, if people have specific ideas about alterations, uses, sizes, shape etc. then please let me know.
Also the sources are available if anyone else wants to make different sizes. See here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?cwlnmvyyqmd
All images should be embedded in the file. You'll need to have Nimbus Sans L installed. I used inscape 0.46 pre4 to make the file.
>I think it might be good if you also write a short Blog entry about that so more people know about it
What kind of blog entry do you have in mind Matthias? On the fellowship site? About how I made the buttons, or how they may be used, or simply that they exist? What are your thoughts? I think that this is a good idea also.
Thanks,
Sam.
Here are two more buttons:
http://www.imagebam.com/image/e827eb58102423
Can't hurt to have a few more.
Source files are attached, at 400.2 kb the attachment may be too large.
Sam.
Hi all,
we would need some more design stuff at the moment.
1) it would be very good if we have some more ways to promote FSFE and
the Fellowship with some nice web-buttons.
We already have some buttons on
http://www.fsfe.org/contribute/banners.en.html and
http://wiki.fsfe.org/Artwork/Banners. New ideas are very
welcome. Especially some fancy "FSFE Fellow", "FSFE Fellows No XY", etc.
would be very cool to have.
- "We speak about Free Software" which people can link to
http://www.fsfe.org/documents/whyfs.en.html would be nice.
- "I am in favour of WIWO" http://www.fsfe.org/projects/wipo/wiwo.en.html
- "Software patent != Innovation"
http://www.fsfe.org/projects/swpat/memorandum.en.html
- ".DOC = Daten ohne Chance" http://www.fsfe.org/projects/os/os.en.html
- Some cool "Use Study Share Improve" buttons would also be nice.
2) We need new t-shirts. If you have some nice ideas, please sent them
in. Alina is currently checking out ways to have some test runs with new
t-shirts.
Here one idea from me (not designed as I cannot do that):
- Color: Black
- Front: Nice plussy + Text "Free your bits"
- Back: Between the shoulder blades the URL like it is done here:
http://www.fsfe.org/order/2008/tshirt-mdf-green-back-large.jpg in
white (I think that should be one of the default options for us for
displaying the URL)
And than something like the following with the 0 and 1s in white and
the text in the Fellowship green, so we get a bit a "matrix style":
0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1
1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0
0 U S E 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1
1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0
0 1 0 1 S T U D Y 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0
1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0
0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1
0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 S H A R E 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1
1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1
1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0
1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 I M P R O V E 1
0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0
Best wishes,
Matthias
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Hello,
Is there a presentation template available from the FSFE? It would be
nice to have one, preferably in the Open document presentation form.
It there is one, please list it at
http://wiki.fsfe.org/Artwork
It there isn't one, I'll make one. I'll also make some basic slides to
present FSFE that can be used by anybody with minimal preparation.
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